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Colonic Angiomyolipoma
Author(s) -
AKEDO Ikuko,
KUROKAWA Masanori,
NISHIKAWA Masahiro,
SUGIMACHI Masamitsu,
HIRAOKA Shintaro,
YONEZAWA Tuyoshi,
SHIMOMUKAI Hiromi,
ISHIGURO Shingo
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.1995.tb00401.x
Subject(s) - tuberous sclerosis , medicine , angiomyolipoma , cecum , lipoma , pathology , kidney
Angiomyolipoma is a rare benign tumor which usually occurs in the kidney with tuberous sclerosis. We encountered a case of angiomyolipoma of the cecum not associated with tuberous sclerosis. To our knowledge, this is only the third case reported in the international literature.